Fake fic title meme, both for any fandom: "where is there left for poor sinners to go?" or "the bend is worse than the break"? (Also sorry if this sends more than once, tumblr hates me right now.)
Where is there left for poor sinners to go?
I know I am supposed to write a fake summary but I don't think it would make much sense so I'm just telling you what my immediate idea for a fic was :D
Probably something for Jeremiah/Selina since Miah has a whole church and a cult that worshipps him like a god so why not take that opportunity lmao.
Although the lyrics do give me kinda angsty feels so it'd fit perfectly for a Post-S5 but Pre-10 year time skip fic where Jeremiah and Selina meet up in Jeremiah's church (that's now abandoned because Gotham is slowly going back to normal but all the remnants of the brief cult stint are still there, like....the coloured windows with Miah's face and the altar and the candles) and it's from Selina's PoV and she can't explain to herself why she keeps coming back every week to fight with Jeremiah (because that's what it is at first, the two of them spitting poison at each other at every opportunity) but it slowly turns into them kinda....actually talking to each other and there's something there that Selina vehemently tries to deny.
Also, if we have a religious title and the church as a meet up point, why not put more focus on Selina and her thoughts about whether she's a good person or not and how maybe Bruce left her - just like everybody else - because she's inherently bad.
She hurt Jeremiah and she enjoyed it, maybe she is plain evil. Maybe she doesnβt deserve 'redemption' (in this case, Bruce forgiving her for killing Jeremiah since that's one of the biggest fighting points for B*tcat).
And we can go even bigger, by adding one of those baptismal fonts??? To the church and having Miah baptise her as a way to 'absolve' her of any 'sins'.
The fic would get a big fat Blasphemy Tag of course aksndndn
Also while I would play with religious images because of the setting, neither of them would actually talk about or believe in God, the whole baptism thing would be more about Jeremiah showing Selina he forgives her for killing him, giving her the absolution she needs - by somebody who hurt her way worse and probably still enjoys the thought of hurting her and who is just as rotten as she is but none of that matters in that moment, that one utterly surreal moment, where she's perching on the edge of the font and he's holding her upper body tightly before dipping her back, murmuring things she can't hear and doesn't care about while she cries and thinks about Bruce. Ivy. Bridgit. Her Mother.
(The inherent intimacy of being shown the slightest crumb of compassion/affection when you're touch-starved).
The bend is worse than the break
This makes me think something character centric and inexplicably I am thinking Bridgit?? But I don't know what I would write.
The bend and the break could be about her relationship to her family? Like, 'bending' to her brother's will and then finally breaking away from then by deciding to kill them.
Which in this case is the better option since she is finally free.
Or something about her friendship with Selina. How it became distorted when she started being Firefly and wanted to help all those people and then later one changed again when she came back from the dead and then completely broke off when she was a full on villain and in the legion.
(I had thoughts about Bridgit visiting Selina in the hospital when she fell out the window in S3, so maybe I could incorporate that?)
But honestly that one doesn't give me as much as the first lyrics.
